قَالَ فَإِنَّا قَدْ فَتَنَّا قَوْمَكَ مِنۢ بَعْدِكَ وَأَضَلَّهُمُ ٱلسَّامِرِىُّ
Quran glossary · draft
ٱلسَّامِرِيّ، سَامِرِيّ
Samiri personal referent
A proper-name expression designates the one male individual who misled Moses' people in the calf episode and was directly questioned by Moses.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 3
Roots: سمر
Lemmas: سامري
Forms: سَّامِرِىُّ · سَٰمِرِىُّ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
قَالُوا۟ مَآ أَخْلَفْنَا مَوْعِدَكَ بِمَلْكِنَا وَلَٰكِنَّا حُمِّلْنَآ أَوْزَارًا مِّن زِينَةِ ٱلْقَوْمِ فَقَذَفْنَٰهَا فَكَذَٰلِكَ أَلْقَى ٱلسَّامِرِىُّ
قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكَ يَٰسَٰمِرِىُّ
Where other meanings fail
talker
20:85
قَالَ فَإِنَّا قَدْ فَتَنَّا قَوْمَكَ مِنۢ بَعْدِكَ وَأَضَلَّهُمُ ٱلسَّامِرِىُّ
Alternative: an unspecified talker led your people astray
Research rendering: the Samiri led your people astray
Definiteness and narrative co-reference identify one established person rather than a descriptive member of a speaking class.
conversational assembly
20:95
قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكَ يَٰسَٰمِرِىُّ
Alternative: Moses said, what is your affair, O conversational assembly
Research rendering: Moses said, what is your affair, Samiri
The vocative addresses one named male whose earlier actions are under examination, not a group event.